Transformers: Robots in Disguise Easter Baskets at KMart

Really? If I knew this was news worthy, I would've reported this a week ago -_-. (With that said, I still find it amusing that the show already has a licensed Easter basket.)

These started showing up the day after Valentine's. Walmart has similar baskets, but smaller. You'd think they'd include a cheap fast food level figure in these instead of all generic stuff with images on them, being based on toy licenses and all. Couldn't even be bothered to include proper candy for the price.

Emerje

Slashercon wrote:Really? If I knew this was news worthy, I would've reported this a week ago -_-. (With that said, I still find it amusing that the show already has a licensed Easter basket.)

Ditto. These suckers showed up about two weeks ago at my Wal-Mart. Besides, no knock-offs, not interested. Anybody miss the days when a shoddy Devastator KO came out at Easter or Christmas?

Emerje wrote:You'd think they'd include a cheap fast food level figure in these instead of all generic stuff with images on them, being based on toy licenses and all. Couldn't even be bothered to include proper candy for the price.

Emerje

Agreed. Pre-wrapped Easter baskets are traditionally supposed to be for TF knock-offs, which offer way more play value than these frisbees and yo-yos. Primus, how I wish I'd gotten the Transmetal Primal and Megs basket years ago, before the crackdowns.

I've seen a few newly KOed faces in baskets this year though, mostly in CVS and Dollar General (I think). The Hardtop and Superion-Maximus A-10 mold in one Unicron Trilogy themed basket, and a Bayniverse legend Ratchet in another. Nothing really worth bothering with though, not like 10 years ago with all them gestalt teams. And now the CW toys are too big to fit a whole team in a basket even if they were shrunk a bit, so that won't be happening with them, and Hasbro reaps another minor benefit of finally giving us combiners the size they should've grown to long ago!

And the one thing the basket doesn't contain is a transformer.

"Taffy candy"? Isn't that a bit redundant? All taffy is candy, as far as I know.

Wow, look at that sweet Bumblebee frisbee. I'm so jelly of whichever kiddy got this today.

I'm being a bit silly, but in serious, happy Easter everyone.

Even as a naive 8yo kid, I would be really, really disapointed by either of these baskets. The Pony one should have at least include a blind bag pony and the TF one should have at least include a minicon.

Easter has changed over years I remember see baskets in stores with more candy little less toys now it opposite

Easter has changed over years I remember see baskets in stores with more candy little less toys now it opposite

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Emerje wrote:You'd think they'd include a cheap fast food level figure in these instead of all generic stuff with images on them, being based on toy licenses and all. Couldn't even be bothered to include proper candy for the price.

Emerje

Agreed. Pre-wrapped Easter baskets are traditionally supposed to be for TF knock-offs, which offer way more play value than these frisbees and yo-yos. Primus, how I wish I'd gotten the Transmetal Primal and Megs basket years ago, before the crackdowns.

I've seen a few newly KOed faces in baskets this year though, mostly in CVS and Dollar General (I think). The Hardtop and Superion-Maximus A-10 mold in one Unicron Trilogy themed basket, and a Bayniverse legend Ratchet in another. Nothing really worth bothering with though, not like 10 years ago with all them gestalt teams. And now the CW toys are too big to fit a whole team in a basket even if they were shrunk a bit, so that won't be happening with them, and Hasbro reaps another minor benefit of finally giving us combiners the size they should've grown to long ago!

I know what you mean. I miss the ones that had generic Dinobots or Beast Wars figures in them. About 10 years ago I got a basket from Kmart with a very large KO Sky Garry in it. I haven't seen anything nearly as cool as that since.

Emerje

If you're still looking for some of Takara Tomy's offbeat filler characters, AmiAmi has a fresh stock of them for 1,880jpy (US$15.80) each. This is includes the harder to find Roadblock, Swoop, and Snarl. They probably won't last long at what's basically Hasbro prices so good luck!

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote: just scan them in at the store so I don't have to buy those horrible things!

You're able to do that?

All you need is a decent picture of the 'code ring' , from a Seibertron.com galley for example, on a second device or computer screen and it will still scan to unlock in the game. Yeah it's "cheating" but having to re-scan the 'code ring' again when the character 'goes back to Cybertron' after about a day is stupid.

Emerje wrote:If you're still looking for some of Takara Tomy's offbeat filler characters, AmiAmi has a fresh stock of them for 1,880jpy (US$15.80) each. This is includes the harder to find Roadblock, Swoop, and Snarl. They probably won't last long at what's basically Hasbro prices so good luck!

Emerje

Cool. I've got to get myself one of those

On the legion class figures, what weapons (if any) are supposed to fit in the hand and vehicle peg hols on the figures?

Kyleor wrote:On the legion class figures, what weapons (if any) are supposed to fit in the hand and vehicle peg hols on the figures?

I've got them holding G1 technobots weapons, but the Prime Cyberverse energo weapons work too.

Kyleor wrote:On the legion class figures, what weapons (if any) are supposed to fit in the hand and vehicle peg hols on the figures?

Anything with a standard 3mm peg should work.

Let's get speculating! Which RID Decepticons do you think are most likely to get the Warrior treatment other than Steeljaw?

That Bot wrote:Let's get speculating! Which RID Decepticons do you think are most likely to get the Warrior treatment other than Steeljaw?

This is a great question. Hasbro confirmed there would be others. I suspect Fracture and Thunderhoof to get the Warrior treatment and maybe Clampdown too.

That Bot wrote:Let's get speculating! Which RID Decepticons do you think are most likely to get the Warrior treatment other than Steeljaw?

Hammerstrike will probably be 'too hard' for them to do properly. Chop Shop probably won't be any sort of combiner, but hopefully would still look cool. Quillfire hopefully would come with a few handheld quill weapons. Definitely want to see one of Filch, they probably could remold a Laserbeak for Filch.

I am really hoping for Thunderhoof.
I would say any of the Cons that are teaming up with Razorclaw are good candidates, as they will be reoccurring characters.
I would really like to see Buffalo Dude. (Can't think of his name OTTOMH)

Cobotron wrote:I am really hoping for Thunderhoof.
I would say any of the Cons that are teaming up with Razorclaw are good candidates, as they will be reoccurring characters.
I would really like to see Buffalo Dude. (Can't think of his name OTTOMH)

Are you trying to be cute ?

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:I am really hoping for Thunderhoof.
I would say any of the Cons that are teaming up with Razorclaw are good candidates, as they will be reoccurring characters.
I would really like to see Buffalo Dude. (Can't think of his name OTTOMH)

Are you trying to be cute ?

Sorry, lots on my mind right now.
I meant Steeljaw.

Who is Razorclaw? Beast Wars Crab?
You know I'm horrible with these names.

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:I am really hoping for Thunderhoof.
I would say any of the Cons that are teaming up with Razorclaw are good candidates, as they will be reoccurring characters.
I would really like to see Buffalo Dude. (Can't think of his name OTTOMH)

Are you trying to be cute ?

Sorry, lots on my mind right now.
I meant Steeljaw.

Who is Razorclaw? Beast Wars Crab?
You know I'm horrible with these names.

Now I am even more certain you are playing with me (in a fun way, of course) because Razorclaw is a Transformer we both got last year and are both fond of. I think you got him for your birthday too. He's the lion thats the center piece of the amazing G1 toy Predaking! (still the best value of all platinum releases).

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:I am really hoping for Thunderhoof.
I would say any of the Cons that are teaming up with Razorclaw are good candidates, as they will be reoccurring characters.
I would really like to see Buffalo Dude. (Can't think of his name OTTOMH)

Are you trying to be cute ?

Sorry, lots on my mind right now.
I meant Steeljaw.

Who is Razorclaw? Beast Wars Crab?
You know I'm horrible with these names.

Now I am even more certain you are playing with me (in a fun way, of course) because Razorclaw is a Transformer we both got last year and are both fond of. I think you got him for your birthday too. He's the lion thats the center piece of the amazing G1 toy Predaking! (still the best value of all platinum releases).

I'm not! I had to go check to make sure though, because as I said, you know I'm terrible with these names. but...

This is Razorclaw


...also this


...and yes, lastly, this.


There are many more, but I'll stop.


ANYWAY. I really hope for RID'15 the make Scrunderhoof, Tailblade, Cramp Down, and Tigerface.
oh and Monkey Dump.
Did I get those right?

There are listings for a Warrior figure of Fracture coming.

Cobotron wrote:

ANYWAY. I really hope for RID'15 the make Scrunderhoof, Tailblade, Cramp Down, and Tigerface.
oh and Monkey Dump.
Did I get those right?

So many razorclaws. I hope I wasnt too harsh on you for getting the name wrong, I didnt mean to mess with you.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

ANYWAY. I really hope for RID'15 the make Scrunderhoof, Tailblade, Cramp Down, and Tigerface.
oh and Monkey Dump.
Did I get those right?

So many razorclaws. I hope I wasnt too harsh on you for getting the name wrong, I didnt mean to mess with you.

All in good fun WJ. All in good fun.

Fellow Seibertron staffer, ScottyP shared a sighting with us, a Toys R Us sighting of Hyper Change/3-Step Robots In Disguise Optimus Prime. As you probably know by now, this has seen release across the country in various spots, but not at all retailers and not in every part of the country. This is our first official sighting of the figure and if it hadn't been for ScottyP we wouldn't have one to share, this is why we need your help to know what's been sighted. Please, as soon as possible, send your finds of brand new figures to sightings@seibertron.com and post in our sightings forum, here, so we can spread the word when new and hot items become available.

Here's what ScottyP had to share:

Hyper Change OP at a TRU in Raleigh, NC. $21.99 each.

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

Saw one of these about a week ago (about a week ago) at my local ASDA.

Autobot032 wrote:Fellow Seibertron staffer, ScottyP shared a sighting with us, a Toys R Us sighting of Hyper Change/3-Step Robots In Disguise Optimus Prime. As you probably know by now, this has seen release across the country in various spots, but not at all retailers and not in every part of the country. This is our first official sighting of the figure and if it hadn't been for ScottyP we wouldn't have one to share, this is why we need your help to know what's been sighted. Please, as soon as possible, send your finds of brand new figures to sightings@seibertron.com and post in our sightings forum, here, so we can spread the word when new and hot items become available.

Here's what ScottyP had to share:

Hyper Change OP at a TRU in Raleigh, NC. $21.99 each.

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

I spotted these back on March 14, and they're still missing from the sighting page:

http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/toys-missing-from-the-sightings-page-t990s200.php#p1662701

Kyleor wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Fellow Seibertron staffer, ScottyP shared a sighting with us, a Toys R Us sighting of Hyper Change/3-Step Robots In Disguise Optimus Prime. As you probably know by now, this has seen release across the country in various spots, but not at all retailers and not in every part of the country. This is our first official sighting of the figure and if it hadn't been for ScottyP we wouldn't have one to share, this is why we need your help to know what's been sighted. Please, as soon as possible, send your finds of brand new figures to sightings@seibertron.com and post in our sightings forum, here, so we can spread the word when new and hot items become available.

Here's what ScottyP had to share:

Hyper Change OP at a TRU in Raleigh, NC. $21.99 each.

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

I spotted these back on March 14, and they're still missing from the sighting page:

http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/toys-missing-from-the-sightings-page-t990s200.php#p1662701

Thank you for posting in that thread and bringing this to our attention. I will pass this onto the webmaster and see if we can get this fixed. In the future, please also send an email to sightings@seibertron.com so we can be immediately notified that a new item has been sighted or obtained. The problem is, the board doesn't tell us of each new post (we have to actively search for such things) so we need your help to let us know when something's not working right or news that we haven't posted.

Thanks again!

Found this 2 months ago at Target and Walmart.

Autobot032 wrote: Hyper Change OP at a TRU in Raleigh, NC. $21.99 each.

Saw this at a Target store yesterday and a few weeks ago.

Yesterday, The Target store I went to had those Newer Wave Rid deluxes of Drift and Optimus. They also Had CW Legends Blackjack and Huffer.

Sadly didn't find any CW Leaders toys for G1 Megatron or Armada Megatron.

Just wondering, a lot of people are saying they already saw these, but we didnt get any e-mails about it. Is it because you guys thought it was old news? I know Kyleo posted it elsewhere, but why didnt anyone else write to us about it?

william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, a lot of people are saying they already saw these, but we didnt get any e-mails about it. Is it because you guys thought it was old news?

Yes,

william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, a lot of people are saying they already saw these, but we didnt get any e-mails about it. Is it because you guys thought it was old news? I know Kyleo posted it elsewhere, but why didnt anyone else write to us about it?

Well, I don't report as much as I should because I just assume the stores I frequent in SE Michigan are the last to get anything (and I don't have a digital camera), but THIS time...I'm honestly shocked that this warranted a front paged sighting. Not only has this been in stock for over a month at Westland's TRU, we've consistently had more of it than any other hyperchange figure. My mind is blown to know that anyone near a large U.S. city has had trouble finding Almost-Star-Convoy since February.

I can't recall what other stores have him, but I guess I'll check his saturation next time I'm on my (probably year-long) Arcee/Chromia hunt, which FINALLY yielded a Brainstorm at the Ford Road/Beech Daily TJMaxx; but I left him because, like the one I bought even cheaper at Kmart last month, he has no headbrace, which means Arcana's head will vanish into his depths with any play whatsoever, yes?

KirbyForce1 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, a lot of people are saying they already saw these, but we didnt get any e-mails about it. Is it because you guys thought it was old news?

Yes,

Ok, makes sense, thanks for replying.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, a lot of people are saying they already saw these, but we didnt get any e-mails about it. Is it because you guys thought it was old news? I know Kyleo posted it elsewhere, but why didnt anyone else write to us about it?

Well, I don't report as much as I should because I just assume the stores I frequent in SE Michigan are the last to get anything (and I don't have a digital camera), but THIS time...I'm honestly shocked that this warranted a front paged sighting. Not only has this been in stock for over a month at Westland's TRU, we've consistently had more of it than any other hyperchange figure. My mind is blown to know that anyone near a large U.S. city has had trouble finding Almost-Star-Convoy since February.

I can't recall what other stores have him, but I guess I'll check his saturation next time I'm on my (probably year-long) Arcee/Chromia hunt, which FINALLY yielded a Brainstorm at the Ford Road/Beech Daily TJMaxx; but I left him because, like the one I bought even cheaper at Kmart last month, he has no headbrace, which means Arcana's head will vanish into his depths with any play whatsoever, yes?

Thanks for your reply to my post. To answer your last question first: yes, the brainstorm from TJMaxx is not the fixed version but not all the older versions were bad. I got one from TJ Maxx and its perfect.

Now for the other part, I live in canada so the distribution is always off a bit (we get stuff a bit earlier or later) and as of right now we stil dont have that hyperchange prime so it didnt really surprise me that no one else was talking about him. Since the interest in those toys is not great, its hard to know if the lack of discussion is because he isnt found yet or because people dont care about him.

And the front page post was more of a reminder that we need people to send in e-mails like that we can get news to the rest right away instead of reporting stuff late like this (kinda meta, at least in my opinion). And about no owning a digital camera, I just use my phone, dont know if you were referring to that too.

All the best!

I didn't know it was news. The hyper change Optimii seemed to be so prevalent in the Central New York State area so I for one didn't even think these were hard to come by.
On a related note, I picked up hyper change Grimlock at Walmsrt and even ran into a couple of fellow collectors. Hyperchange Grimlock is just flat out fun. Love the show accurate Dino mode.

william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, a lot of people are saying they already saw these, but we didnt get any e-mails about it. Is it because you guys thought it was old news? I know Kyleo posted it elsewhere, but why didnt anyone else write to us about it?

Probably partly because nobody really cares about the Hyper Change stuff. >_>

yeah.. this thing has been saturated in stores for over a month... i'm not sure how it qualifies as news.

Phew, you'd think people would be happier about us passing along sightings news, even if it is a bit out of date, but then I come in here to this thread and it's just, well, speaks for itself really.

KirbyForce1 wrote:Saw one of these about a week ago (about a week ago) at my local ASDA.

Kyleor wrote:I spotted these back on March 14

Primeultimus wrote:Found this 2 months ago at Target and Walmart.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Saw this at a Target store yesterday and a few weeks ago.

Bumblevivisector wrote:I'm honestly shocked that this warranted a front paged sighting. Not only has this been in stock for over a month at Westland's TRU, we've consistently had more of it than any other hyperchange figure.

Drift082111 wrote:I didn't know it was news. The hyper change Optimii seemed to be so prevalent in the Central New York State area so I for one didn't even think these were hard to come by.

TimothyR wrote:yeah.. this thing has been saturated in stores for over a month... i'm not sure how it qualifies as news.

It's very clear to me that there is still extreme confusion to the site's policies for what kind of sightings qualify as news, and how we obtain that information. I for one don't scour the internet for sightings news, I generally just check things here (or get emails sent to staff copied over to us podcasters about stuff) to know what's out and what isn't. I'd known this thing was online for awhile, but genuinely had no idea it was in stores until yesterday.

So all that said, once again for everyone reading this, here's the site's general guidelines for reporting a sighting as "news":

• First reported sighting for a given region, such as "United States", "Canada", or "UK".
• Said sighting is emailed, with picture proof, to news@seibertron.com or sightings@seibertron.com
• Said sighting is emailed, with picture proof, to news@seibertron.com or sightings@seibertron.com
• Yes, I listed that twice. Site staff does not roam the boards checking sightings. It's not a feasible activity and it can turn into a bunch of work, and we're all volunteers here. Once in awhile, yes, we may catch a thread post and news it, but this is the exception. You have to let us know and email is what we monitor. Pretty easy to check that info out even on the go, on even the cheapest of smartphones.
• Generally, must be a newer toy. This is relatively new, probably hitting distribution saturation just now, hence I actually saw it in NC at last If we went back and looked through news and couldn't find a newspost about RiD 2015 Legions Wave 1, well, sorry that wouldn't be news anymore, but if you're out and see Wave 3 (Fixit/Underbite), let us know!
• If you aren't sure whether or not to report something, here's an easy thing to do. Take a picture with your phone while you're out, and later on run a quick search of either our news, or heck, even go to google and search "(Insert Toy Name Here) Seibertron" and you'll almost definitely just get hits of our news articles related to it, including sightings. No sighting for your region? Email us!

So remember, if you think this news is horribly out of date, the power is in your hands to help us out on being more current in the future. To those already doing it, and to those helping us point out what's missing in the database, you rock! Hope this helps, I'm off to mess around with this Optimus some more now

Just spotted 3-Step Hyperchange RID Optimus at Meijer in Charlotte, Michigan for $19.99

It's hard to mark figures as sighted on the in-store sightings page when the sightings database doesn't get updated when people post in the 'missing listing' thread. Shouldn't figures get added to the database right after they're announced?

Kyleor wrote:It's hard to mark figures as sighted on the in-store sightings page when the sightings database doesn't get updated when people post in the 'missing listing' thread. Shouldn't figures get added to the database right after they're announced?

Sure, but regardless, the staff wouldnt have noticed it because the in store sightings page is not the place to report news that is aimed at the staff. They will only post what they get in e-mails. The sightings page is more for the community and other collectors. For the staff to get it, it must be sent by e-mail to either news@seibertron.com or sightings@seiberton.com.

william-james88 wrote:

Kyleor wrote:It's hard to mark figures as sighted on the in-store sightings page when the sightings database doesn't get updated when people post in the 'missing listing' thread. Shouldn't figures get added to the database right after they're announced?

Sure, but regardless, the staff wouldnt have noticed it because the in store sightings page is not the place to report news that is aimed at the staff. They will only post what they get in e-mails. The sightings page is more for the community and other collectors. For the staff to get it, it must be sent by e-mail to either news@seibertron.com or sightings@seiberton.com.

I'm not talking about news or news posts, I'm talking about figures not being added to the sightings page in a timely manner.

Hear this Canada, Warrior Class Wave 2 of Transformers: Robots in Disguise has been spotted! The two new faces in this wave are Optimus Prime and Drift, and they were found at a ToysRus in Edmonton Alberta (west end). They have yet to show up online for the retailer, so hopefully you can find yours in store. Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers News, and take a look at our ever expanding Gallery section!

Except for the colors and the fact that it turns into a car instead of a motorcycle, this thing really smacks of TFA Prowl...

Are those supposed to be new for just Canada or new for everyone just spotted first in Canada? Because I saw those two all over weeks ago and just assumed because we get things here in general so late they must already have been everywhere. I guess similar to that OP someone else from Michigan was talking about being all over here before the news.

I realize the article mentions Canada several times, I just don't know if that means you think Canada is first to get these or that Canada has been waiting on these while they've been out elsewhere a while.

Not a big deal, I just sometimes don't know quite how to parse these sorts of news items.

Didn't know these hadn't been spotted. I work at a Toysrus in Canada and they've been on shelves for about a week